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What the heck is Scarlet...?

2008-04-17T02:11:10Z

For the past two days ads have been popping up all of the interwebs, on TV and (reportedly) in print for some new series called Scarlet. Check out the website and trailer. The Web site is very high quality, the ads are on expensive sites (Yahoo,...

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Wikipedia - Excluding knowlege on "principle" = Bad

2007-09-19T18:13:18Z

Wikiscanner has been getting a ton of attention lately. With articles cropping up all over the place detailing editing "abuses" by corporations, the government and PR firms. When you look over these articles or, perish the thought, actually use ...

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Digg the riotous PR!

2007-05-03T07:19:40Z

Earlier this morning I was thinking about the "Digg Riot" that happened last night. Digg executives received a cease and desist letter from lawyers from AACS (the HD-DVD DRM encryption folks) asking Digg to remove items refencing decryption keys....

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Online Avatars: "Mii, myself and I"

2007-04-11T17:39:47Z

Today's St. Paul Pioneer Press had a fun article on online avatars that has some quotes from me about my Second Life avatar "Patrick Lilja, who works at the Tunheim Partners public-relations agency in Bloomington, recently wandered the Second Li...

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Journalism and the Effect of Emerging Technology

2007-04-11T17:26:58Z

I moderated a round table this morning on "Journalism and the Effect of Emerging Technology" that was sponsored by PR Newswire. I thought it actually turned out very well. I often go to round tables where they just seem to peter out about 15 min...

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